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| I couldn't have put it better.. I am happy to have the well removed..if that is the general feeling....but as you say what about all t'other things that have arrived over the years. As for the tree chimneys! Wells must have been worshiped pre Christian times, or at least used. I was up on Carburrow Tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor yesterday. There is a large Bronze Age settlement there plus two big cairns and a supposed quoit. Slap bang in the middle of the settlement is a spring...much walked in by cattle and not the sort of thing you would want to drink from but... It has never been Christianised....there is a well nearer the modern setlement, much more handy. If there had been a "temple" here it has long dissapeared or fallen amongst the rest of the granite that litters the hillside....we will never know. Once again we get back to the "in the past 4000 years much has changed, we have no proof" discussion. Mr H Reply | with quote |  13th October 2004ce 08:27 In reply to: Re: Not my hero (FourWinds) |
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